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Hace 4 días · Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings, British soldier and governor-general of India, was the son of Sir John Rawdon of Moira in the county of Down, 4th baronet, who was created Baron Rawdon of Moira, and afterwards earl of Moira, in the Irish peerage.
Hace 5 días · It is curious that it should have taken imperial proconsul Lord Cromer (1841–1917, Evelyn Baring until 1892) nearly a century to find a scholarly biographer worthy of his centrality to British, imperial and Egyptian history in the Victorian-Edwardian age. The Marquess of Zetland’s now 72-year-old Lord Cromer (London: Hodder & Stoughton ...
Hace 5 días · After the battle of Blore Heath (Staffs.) in 1459, two of the Yorkist leaders, the earl of Salisbury's sons Thomas and John Neville, were imprisoned in Chester castle. (fn. 46) Despite such links between Chester and the house of Lancaster, in 1460 Richard, duke of York, granted the city's mayor, John Southworth, an annual pension of £10 for ...
Hace 3 días · July 29, 1812, Sackett's Harbor, New York (Battle of Sackett's Harbor) - Before Commodore Issac Chauncey's regime, the United States had only 1 war vessel on Lake Ontario. The USS Oneida was based at Sackett's Harbor. From April through July, it brought in 2 prizes. The Oneida's depredations and the strategic importance of Sackett's Harbor made ...
Hace 5 días · DUKES AND EARLS OF KENT. ALCHER, EALCHER, or AUCHER, was the first EARL OF KENT that I have seen any mention of, who had also the title of DUKE, from his being at the same time intrusted with the military power of the county. He is eminent in history for his bravery shewn in a battle with the Danes, in the year 853. These pirates, having landed with a considerable- force that year in the isle ...
Hace 5 días · The First Article. The Charge, Article 1. That the said Earl of Strafford the 21st day of March, in the Eighth year of His Majesties Reign, was President of the Kings Council in the Northern parts of England. That the said Earl being President of the said Council, on the 21st of March, a Commission under the Great Seal of England, with certain ...
Hace 3 días · The new earl of Norfolk, he maintains, was certainly a good citizen, especially during Edward's absence in the years to 1274 and in Wales and Scotland, for example. He was placed under pressure by the king's quo warranto campaign and by demands that he pay back his debts to the Exchequer, the sum of which he disagreed with on more than one occasion.
